After 17 years on the watch list of the anti-narcotics agency, a 59-year-old drug baron, Ogbonnaya Kevin, has been unearthed by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) from his hideout in Ojo area of Lagos State.
The notorious baron was said to have hatched numerous plans that led to the shipment of illicit drugs across the world, whose worth are put at billions of naira.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja yesterday, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), detailed how operatives of its Special Operations Unit had been on the trail of Ogbonnaya following an Interpol red notice against him and information from the National Intelligence Service of South Korea.